Get Ready To Pay More For These 5 Foods At The Supermarket This Fall
Whether you call it inflation or “shrinkflation,” they both add up to the same thing every time we go to the supermarket. We’re paying more for groceries and we may as well get used to it.
Higher prices at the supermarket have been building over the past couple of years. According to Eat This, Not That, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that grocery prices shot up 11.4% in 2022. Even though inflation has been cooling off this year, the consumer price index (CPI) still shows food prices increasing by 6.7% between May 2022 and May 2023.
Since Americans are still feeling a pinch at the supermarket checkout, it may affect how you plan your meals. There are a few foods in particular that will see a jump in cost this fall. As you’re budgeting for your trips to the store, here are five grocery items that will likely go up in price over the next few months:
- Beef
- Oranges
- Peaches
- Olive Oil
- Chocolate
Those last two are going to be problematic in my house. We use olive oil nearly every day. And with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in the way, paying more for chocolate is definitely going to sting. At least the price of eggs has gone back down. Maybe it’s time to switch up some holiday traditions. Would it be weird to hand out hard-boiled eggs to trick-or-treaters?